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Chris Olah

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Founded mechanistic interpretability, developing the circuits and induction-head framework for reverse-engineering how models compute.

Works in the archive (5) · lead author on 1

LeadZoom In: An Introduction to Circuits · 2020
A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits · 2021
In-context Learning and Induction Heads · 2022
Toy Models of Superposition · 2022
Towards Monosemanticity: Decomposing Language Models With Dictionary Learning · 2023

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Nelson Elhage (3), Neel Nanda (3), Catherine Olsson (3), Nick Cammarata, Ludwig Schubert, Gabriel Goh, Michael Petrov, Shan Carter, Tom Henighan, Nicholas Joseph, Tristan Hume, Trenton Bricken

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